so, when phiona lived with her mom in a shack, their rent was 10,000 ugandan shillings. that's 2.76 usd! the mom couldn't pay, so they got evicted.
wtf?
i mean, i know uganda is a poor country, and they lived in a shed, but this just seemed insane.
can anbody comment on the rent price?
Harriet had lost everything that belonged to her, except for her children and a mattress. Now the mattress was gone. Harriet had offered her mattress as collateral for a loan, seed money for a job selling cassava in the Kibuye market. When the business failed within a week, the mat- tress was gone. Harriet and her children had nothing left to sleep on.
At that point they had moved in with Harriet?s mother, into a tiny shack in Katwe barely fit for one person but sleeping six. One day the landlord showed up and told them that without a rent payment, they would have to leave immediately. They had no money.
So the family moved to another shack in the Kizungu zone which borders Katwe, a dwelling that had been abandoned because it was in such a decrepit state. Shortly after they arrived there, Harriet?s mother died. They continued to stay there despite returning one day to find that their possessions had been stolen because they could not afford a lock for the door. Finally the house collapsed.
Because she had no other choice, Harriet and her children stayed on the roadside near the Kibuye market. The only other option for shelter was back in her father?s village in Seeta, but Harriet didn?t have the fare to transport everybody there and wasn?t sure she?d even be welcome.